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America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at a Time

Mad in America

This bill will leave America a far crueler and weaker place,” Robert Weissman, co-president of the nonprofit Public Citizen, said in a statement. So if you don’t get into a respite, and you don’t get picked up and carted off to [state hospitals] like Winnebago or Mendota or somewhere horrible, you just end up on the street.”

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.